Announcements

UTAH CHILDREN'S WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS

Announcement List--February 5, 2003



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CONGRATULATIONS!

to Chris Crowe, whose soon to be released book GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER has been picked up by the Junior Library Guild book club.

to Chris Crowe again, whose book MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955 was just named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

to Ann Cannon, whose book CHARLOTTE'S ROSE is a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association's 2002 Regional Book Award.


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COMING SOON

March, 2003
from Barbara Williams, ALBERT'S IMPOSSIBLE TOOTHACHE, picture book, Candlewick
from Sherry Meidell, illustrator, THE DAY THE PICTURE MAN CAME, text by Faye Gibbons, Boyds Mills Press

Spring, 2003
from Michael Tunnell, THE PRYDAIN COMPANION, a guide to Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, Henry Holt.

Fall, 2003
from Kimberley Heuston, DANTE'S DAUGHTER, a YA, Front Street.


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RECENT SALES

Sharlee Glenn, JUST WHAT MAMA NEEDS, a picture book, to Putnam.

Kimberley Heuston, DANTE'S DAUGHTER, a YA, to Front Street Books.

Rick Walton, a collection of mini-mysteries to American Girl, and BUNNIES AT SCHOOL to HarperCollins.


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APPEARANCES AND EVENTS


February 7--Lael Littke will be reading in the BYU Harold B. Lee Library auditorium, at 12 noon.

February 8-9--Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) National Mid-Year Conference, New York City.

February 10--Sherry Meidell will be speaking to the Layton group of the League of Utah Writers at the Layton Barnes and Noble at 7 pm. She will be talking about the relationship between writer and illustrator, how the illustrator is chosen, and the process of taking the author's words and turning them into pictures.

February 11--Rick Walton will be visiting Butler Elementary.

February 13-15--Life, the Universe, & Everything XXI, BYU, http://humanities.byu.edu/ltue.

February 14--Gloria Skurzynski will be speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) national conference in Denver.

February 15--Rick Walton and Mette Harrison will be speaking at BYU's Life, The Universe and Everything Science Fiction and Fantasy conference. 9:00 am.

February 18--Rick Walton will be visiting MarLon Elementary in South Ogden.

February 22--Kim Williams-Justesen will be teaching a day-long workshop on writing for children from 9am-4pm at the Park City campus of the U of U's Life Long Learning program. For information call 801-587-5433 or go to www.lifelong.utah.edu. 

March 3--Rick Walton will be visiting Cherry Hill Elementary in Orem.

March 8-11--Gloria Skurzynski will be a guest at a children's literature conference at Western Missouri State University.

March 15--Rick Walton will be visiting Grandview Elementary in Provo.

March 21-22--UVSC Children's Literature Conference.

March 24-April 14--Kim Williams-Justesen will be teaching a six-week workshop on writing for children at the Annex building of the University of Utah campus. For information call 801-587-5433 or go to www.lifelong.utah.edu. 

March 27--Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson will be featured speakers at the National Science Teachers Association annual conference in Philadelphia.

March 29--Sherry Meidell will be one of the artists involved with the Bountiful Davis Art Center's "Appetizing Art". Some of her art will be displayed, and artists will work on paintings that will be auctioned off at the end of the day to help raise funds for the art center.

April 6-12, Gloria Skurzynski will be visiting Montana schools.

April 8--Rick Walton will be speaking to the Davis School District Librarians at Knowlton Elementary in Farmington, from 4-6 

May 1-2--Rick Walton will be visiting Bunderson Elementary in Brigham City.

May 4-8, 2003--International Reading Association, Orlando, Florida.

May 23-25, 2003--Conduit 13: Salt Lake's Science Fiction Weekend.

May 30-June 1, 2003--Book Expo America, Los Angeles.

June 19-25, 2003--American Library Association annual conference, Toronto, Canada.

July 7-11, 2003--BYU Writing for Young Readers Workshop.

July 18-19, 2003--BYU Books for Young Readers Symposium--Guests include Bethanne Anderson, Franny Billingsley, Susan Fletcher, Russell Freedman, David Small, Laurence Yep.

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